breaking news, republican senate roy moore flatly denying allegations that he initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl.

gop presidential candidates mitt romney and john mccain calling on moore to bow out of the race. and moore speaking out on sean hannity's show. his recollection of his dating history with teenage girls, that is raising some eyebrows. listen. >> would it be unusual for you as a 32-year-old guy to have dated a woman as young as 17, that would be a 15-year difference or a girl 18? do you remember dating girls that young at that time? >> not generally, no. if i did, you know, i'm not going to dispute anything, but i don't remember anything like that. >> would it be normal behavior back in those days to date a girl that's 17 or 18? >> no, not normal. >> you can say unequivocally you never dated anybody that was in their late teens like that when you were 32? >> it would have been out of my customary behavior. that's right. >> in other words you don't

really ever dating any girl that young when you were that old? >> i've said no. >> that's called leading the witness. moore also denied knowing the accuser or ever meeting her and someone who abuses a 14-year-old should not be a senate candidate. some republicans in alabama so far seem to be standing behind him. alex mar quart is joining us from alabama. no indication he's stepping aside today. what more are you hearing? >> well, this is the roy moore that his supports know and love. this is roy moore his did he tractors can't stand, who doesn't back down from a fight. this guy has seen so many controversies turnover past four decades. he was the chief justice of alabama and was twiced removed. you can here in that interview with sean hannity he's offering that full-throated registration of what he's calling a liberal conspiracy. but you can also begin to hear some self-doubt. when you look at the way the

campaign is operating, this clearly is a nervous campaign, a campaign that appears to be in cries, except for that interview he to give sean hannity and besides the statement that they put out yesterday, there's been almost no communication from the campaign, no appearance by the candidate, calls, text messages, e-mails to campaign spokespeople. this is clearly a campaign that is trying to figure out what is going on. i was speaking with an official from the county republican party earlier today. he did allow for the fact that moore may lose some votes off this, but he says by and large his base will stand firm and turn out for him on the december 12th election and they may be energized out of this. he said they've been through fire, class reference through all the controversies over the year. he called this controversy unusual, but he said under no circumstances does he believe he will drop out of the race.

>> what are the supporters saying to you? >> a man and woman are sticking by him. the big question is why now? why are these allegations coming out four weeks before the election? some 40 years almost after they took place. are these women being put forward as a smear campaign against moore in the final weeks of this race? are the democrats supporting it? is the republican establishment like mitch mcconnell supporting it? i was a bit surprised when i spoke with a woman at a barbecue restaurant if she knew these allegations to be true, what would she do? >> i would still support moore because i feel as if that's happened in the past. >> even if he was inappropriately touching a 14-year-old girl? >> if he went to the lord, whatever, and asked for forgiveness for that and hasn't done anything like that since

then, i believe that if the good lord's forgiven him, as a christian, i have to forgive him also. >> so moore does have a number of supporters who under any circumstances will vote for him on december 12th. the one exception who i found was a woman until yesterday she said was a big roy moore supporter and and is now questioning it because she knows leigh corfman personally. she is the woman who alleges at 14 years old she was inappropriately touched by roy moore. in talking to most people here, they do not believe these allegations and want to see proof and more corroboration. they want to see roy moore stay in the race and they believe he will win. >> thanks. i want to bring in our panel. fellowship bump, ela stewart, and kyle whit meyer. kyle, you're based in birmingham?

>> birmingham. >> because this happened so long ago, because right now it's a he said, a number of women said, people can see it through the lens of their politics or tribal political sides. >> roy moore's constituency have been built up over many years. these are supporters who have followed him through a lot of controversial positions and moments that might have been embarrassing for the state of beach. what's different about this one is that all those things roy moore was in control over, his stance on gay marriage, his stance on sflag displaying the ten commandments in the courthouse. he's been almost invisible in alabama for the last few weeks as far as campaigning, making very few campaign stops. but i think that a lot of those

voters -- belief perseverance is a really powerful thing, and a lot of those voters have been conditioned by what we've seen in politics in this country in the last several years, if they want to, they don't have to believe these allegations. >> had you heard whispers of these allegations? >> there had been rumors over the years. for a lot of alabama political reporters, this is going to be the one that got away. i was approached through social media a couple years ago, someone who had a friend through a friend of a friend was in contact with one of these woman who is trying to work out some sort of arrangement where one of them would talk to me, and it went dead. >> this isn't someone who just came out of the shadows a few weeks before the election. >> it's always been chasion ghosts before to try to nail these rumors down. it's like nailing jell-o to a

tree. it's an impressive piece of work by "the washington post" to have found not one, but four women, to have found 30 people they had interviewed. >> who would go ordained too with their names. >> and get into hard details, confirming some of them were where they said they were in the courthouse, including roy moore. >> scott? >> i agree it's an impressive piece of reporting by "the washington post." i'm concerned "the washington post" is the excuse to not believe it. as a political man, i'll give you a strategic view. if you were somebody who wanted to take roy moore out of this race, "the washington post" out of the middle, i'm interested to see whether ms. corfman goes to talk on camera. it would be another thing to see her speak direct to camera and speak directly to the people of alabama in her own voice in her

own words. we'll see if that comes next. the other issue is donald trump needs to throw this guy overboard right now. they have no relationship. the first time spoke to roy moore was september 27th. he is embarrassing the president and putting the president's agenda in danger. i'm old enough to remember when the patriots threw a senate leader overboard after making an insensitive remark at a birthday party. in order preserve his agenda the president needs to dump this guy immediately. >> my first job in television news was in alabama. you learn that a lot of people in these small towns get their news locally. that's where they form their opinion. what happens in the po"post" an what we talk about here is not going to influence the people of alabama. folks on the ground are saying this isn't changing their mind. those who like him, this will

make him stand behind him even more. what's interesting is the poll numbers, he had been eight to ten point ahead. now he's about 4.7 points ahead. the last poll shows it tied up. but at the same time since this happened in the last 24 hours they've raised $100,000. the people that are die hard with him will give money and support. the interview he gave today with sean hannity where he couldn't unequivocally say this didn't happen -- it's a yes-or-no question. >> so you're saying it would have been very unusual, and he would say, well, sort of. >> it's not characteristic of his behavior. it was a bit questionable, but i think those who like him aren't going to change. >> kyle? >> there's something else here to understand about where republicans in alabama are. there's a precedent here.

a little more than a year ago we saw allegations coming out. we saw the "access hollywood" tapes come out. >> by "the washington post." >> martha robe at that time denounced the president and asked the president, the then-candidate, to step aside. she got unseated by a write-in candidate. she really is on the ropes right now to get re-elected. a lot of republicans in alabama who might have strong feelings about this situation have seen that and they're scared. they're scared if they step out and say something, they might be the next person to get primaried. >> which is also what you're seeing at the national level.

peop people. as the physical godment of "the washington post" sitting up here, i keep hearing this thing about why now and why now? and there's a reason a person with murky backgrounds don't run for office. what happens is roy moore wins the republican primary and all of a sudden he's a figure off national attention. he might be the next u.s. senator from alabama of the so "the washington post" comes down to alabama and hears these stories and investigates. if you have beef with roy moore, this is your opportunity to stand up and say, hey, this is a thing he happened to me before he becomes senator. we hear a lot at this timing. it goes back to all this fire storm that's been whipped up by the media, which is, of course, anonymous. we are now the scapegoat.

at the end of the day we stand by your reporting. speaking of the "access hollywood" moment, steve bannon just invoked it. will he change his mind? hear what he had to say tonight. someone at the federal bench who's never tried one single case when "360" continues. but or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424.

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steve bannon finished talking at the citadel in south carolina. >> they're finding collusion going on and those stories about judge moore. you will find either tonight or tomorrow there's going to be some interesting stories about how that information got dropped and who paid for it and who weaponized it, right? you know, is it just a coincidence that the bezos did the hit on moore? just a random thing in the universe, right? so i think you'll see tomorrow. look, like what donald trump has said, when i stand with a man, i stand with him, right? i told trump you have 100% chance, just focus on what's important. until i see additional evidence on judge moore, i'm standing with him. [ applause ]

>> back with the panel. how do you see this? >> i just find it just incredibly disturbing that steve bannon says he's standing with justice moore as though that means standing atop women. when one out of every five girls in this country experiences some form of sexual abuse, where we have these women who have demonstrated courage, come forward, know what they're going to be subjected to, for the former adviser to the president to basically say there's a conspiracy and we're going to make these women pay for being tools of this conspiracy, that is unconscionable. the president can call that out. we are at a moment we've seen women across the country step up and speak out. what are we doing?

we are, in fact, using a senatorial candidate to send a message if you speak out you're going to pay a price and be silenced. >> there's so much moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy going on here, i can't stomach it. steve bannon is up there making these statements, yet he was the master mind tracing out the women of accused bill clinton of his indiscretions and they cheerleaded those women. now it's someone that steve bannon likes, now all of a sudden that standard doesn't apply. if this isn't 3the pot calling the kettle black, i don't know what is. he's pedaling a conspiracy theory here, philip can probably speak to this being from "the washington post." there's rumor out there on the

internet about these women were paid by "the washington post" reports, which is absolutely false, it's a conspiracy theory. and he's irresponsibly putting this out there like that. i mean, the duplicity here is just bleechblt i have to say to the credit of many republican senators who have come out and said this is not acceptable. this if it's true part of it is to give them a little bit of cover in case for some reason this is some elaborate hoax, but i don't think it is considering there were 30 people that went on the record. there was another corroborating witness who was the boyfriend mrs. corfman back 20 years ago, 1989, and he said she mentioned the abuse to him. i'm old enough

tomorrow-to-remember when mark fellowly was run out of congress because he was unappropriately texting young pages. i remember republicans were upset about anthony weiner for sending pictures or chris smith who took pictures with his shirt off. what happened to those people. shame on these evangelicals trying to pervert biblical scripture. i suggest they go back and re-read it. >> if he's innocent, then he shouldn't come out and answer all those questions, yes, no, unequivocally answer these questions, plead his innocence. but if they're going to be going to go about doing this where they're i'm trying to discredit these women, it's an unfortunate way to do it.

it's the playbook that helped donald trump win. >> that's right. >> and a lot of their supporters will go with it. if he's going to fight this, it should be based -- >> i thought it was so important because we are in this time when the truth doesn't matter, it's who's making the allegation and what side you're on and people choose to believe what they want to believe. >> no doubt. in the absence of leadership, people revert to their tribes. where do you get leadership in politics? from the top. donald trump right now should take control of this party and end this charade. steve bannon has had an interesting 48 hours. this is blowing up in donald trump's face right now. there was a report that bannon's been talking to mark cuban about running. and so he's now going to run interference for roy moore and

try to take everybody's eye of that ball. donald trump could show real leadership for the republican party right now, ask moore to get out of the race. luther strange, jeff sessions, any of these guys. >> the "access hollywood" tape -- >> if hypocrisy renders us silent and paralyzed, then no one will speak in politics. >> this is at a different level, come on, scott. the "access hollywood" tape, steve bannon's trying to use that as an example of a conspiracy against the president when it was his own words admitted he liked to grope women by the genitals and get away with it. this is moore taking the playbook straight from trump, double down. >> donald trump's been burned once by roy moore. he came to alabama and campaigned for luther strange. we had reporters at that event and asked the people going to this event, are you going to vote for luther strange? no, we're going to vote for roy moore. why are you here?

we just want to see the president. roy moore is the embodiment. it would be embarrassing again for trump if he comes out and says that perhaps luther strange or some other candidate should step in. mind you, right now they would have to ritwrite. there's no way to take moore's name off the ballot. if he wins anyway, then he looks even foolish. >> you never looking for foolish doing the right thing. >> when has donald trump done the right thing, scott? >> roy moore is probably still going to win this race. this is alabama. this is an offyear election. yes, there's a democratic head wind we saw in virginia, but

that's virginia. donald trump also doesn't want to have roy moore come to washington and be irritated with him after he wins the senate race. >> roy's floor has always been his ceiling. i think it is a jump ball at this point. i think that doug jones might be able to pull enough of the republicans who are going to sit on the sidelines, who are not going to go to the polls in december because let's face it, right now if you're where i'm from, and this is your ambassador to the world, forget about whether this is morally reprehensible. just from an economic development perspective, how do you recruit business to a place like alabama if this guy is your state's man? >> i want to note this. we have a number of weeks between now and the general election. that's an eternity.

the fact of the matter is 50% of the population in alabama are women. there are a number of the evangelicals who are caught between hell and a hard place. one of the things that is pretty clear is your church may differ with respect to dworks celibacy, marriage quality, but there's a damning consensus with respect to pedestriofilia. >> the vote was on party lines. i'll talk to one of the nay votes and amy klobuchar next. to its roots.

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. senate candidate roy moore and the allegations against him. senator klobuchar, democrat of minnesota, thanks so much for being with us. i want to ask you about what is going on with roy moore. several of your colleagues say he shouldn't drop out of the race if these allegations are true. does that go far enough for you? >> you know, i think at this point when you have four women that have come forward with documentation, with 30 witnesses that have been interviewed, and no one has really poked a hole in these stories, if i were him, i'd step down. that's something he's going to have to decide. and the republican party is going to have to decide. but i just find it outrageous we keep seeing these candidates, in this case someone who was removed as the justice of alabama supreme court because he wasn't following the law. that's a pretty unique

circumstance to have that person running as a candidate. so there were already many issues that led republicans to doubt this person as a candidate. and now this is the final thing. >> i talked -- >> if he's our candidate, the one thing to remember is there's a good candidate that we have, mr. jones who, in fact, is a former u.s. attorney, a prosecutor, someone running on trust, someone running on his record, someone who is talking about things that matter to the people of alabama like affordable health care and affordable college. so there is an alternative out there. as was noted earlier on the show, the numbers are closing in the polls. >> i talked to a state rep from alabama who supports roy moore, does not believe the women who have come forward. what he said was why are these people coming forward now? it just seems questionable that we're just hearing about this now given that he's been in

public life for some time and this is some sort of a plot by "the washington post" or liberals or whatever it might be. >> when you have someone in this kind of a prominent race, this was pointed out earlier on your program, people decide it matters to come forward. and they make that choice. it doesn't mean that it didn't happen. in fact, it seems to me these are pretty documented stories with someone as representableth. when you see women across the country are coming out and speaking out about what happened to them and harassment and you sexual abuse and things like that, there's also been a change in this country, a change where women are willing to stand up and speak. >> i want to ask you about that change. you put forward legislation that would cover anti-harassment

training for staff. it passed the senate yesterday. what do you make the moment that we're in. do you believe this is some kind of lasting turning point? >> i really do. it was actually quite enlightening to work on that. i had men working on it as well such as senator grassley. we have mandatory training in sexual harassment when we ever had when we should be the example. for every new employee. whappi what matters is what happens next. do policies change, to work cultures change. when you look at the that number, something's wrong here. there's environments where women feel like when they're trying to

move ahead they get pushed down. so my joy will not be so much as seeing some of the people that we've seen fall from power. what i'd like to see is women rise up in power and be able to have a new day where people judge them on their merits and not push them aside and laugh behind their backs. to me this is about empowerment and something that's been pushing women down for a long time. there's another side to this coin besides the stories. >> what we're seeing in alabama, steve bannon was talking about this tonight saying there's evidence of collusion. we'll be hearing more a little in the days to come. it does seem like questions -- there's questions being raised about one of the women, allegations she was a sign language interpreter for the hillary clinton campaign, which is an odd connection.

according to "the washington post" she started her own company and this seems like one of the aspects of that company. it does seem like when women come forward. >> sign language interprets usually work at a lot of different events. >> when women come forward, often they become the ones who are targeted. >> that's exactly right. and i think that these women disturb ask why they didn't come forward before. of course, they thought something like this would happen. but at some point in time people decide the stakes are too high. you ask yourselves why didn't they come out earlier against harvey weinstein? at some point there's strength in numbers where it's no longer i have to hide this and it becomes this is something you must do so it doesn't happen to others. as a former prosecutor, i saw so many victims of criminal sexual abuse. it was just a horrible experience to have to come forward and testify front of the eyes of the jury.

what i also saw was redemption through all of it. they didn't want what happened to them happen to someone else. and that's why they're coming forward. >> senator klobuchar, thank you for being with us. comedian louis c.k. admits the allegations from the "new york times" is true. what he's saying in his statement tonight. tions up to 8. ...don't know if you can hear me, but [monica] what's he doing? [lance] can we get a shot of this cold front, right here. winter has arrived. whooo! hahaha [vo] progress is an unstoppable force. brace yourself for the season of audi sales event. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during the season of audi sales event.

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the power i had over these women and they admired me. what do you make of his apology? >> ut certainly is better than some of the nonapologies we've seen lately. it would have been better if he said sorry or i apologize. it seems heart if he let and a lot of people took it in that spirit. fundamentally there is still the question of why is the apology coming out after these allegations. sometimes an apologize is made before you're found out. >> according to the "times" he contacted some of the women to apologize. i don't know if that was because the story was being worked on or why that may have been, but how

do you see this? >> it was an apology-ish. he said over and over they admired him. never did he say i'm sake, i'm a creep, i'm broken, that was criminal. he never admitted what was actually happening. if you read the whole statement, i think he must have said that i was admired about ten times. so it was creepy. and he never -- he just admitted it and you can't tell if it was a shady strategy to say i'm going down so i'll save my soul or maybe i see that other people are litigating and it's not working so i'll try something else. i didn't feel it was heart felt. it was maybe a last resort. the hardest thing, anderson, is this is a man of power who need other men of power to do this kind of work, right?

there's a lot of reporting about people knowing that his colleagues knew, that all the people that he wrote for and with knew and they admired him. so men admired him and companies admired him because of the money that he brings with him. and then all these women suffer. and so i'm not impressed by him admitting. everyone said i'm a creep, i need help, what i did was criminal, what i did destroys people. it was still very careful. >> what i thought was interesting, him having a career as a comedian who is very self-deprecating and constantly making himself the butt of jokes. >> and talking about masturbation. >> exactly. for his statement to be talking about how knowing all these women admire him, he felt it gave him a pass. look, i think it's a sad day when we have to look at what we've had in the last few weeks

with sexual harassment and say, well, on the scale from 1 to 10 this was right elbow the most heart felt apology. harvey weinstein never apologized. kevin spacey apologized and then said i don't remember. he acknowledged the women and the pain he caused them but it didn't seem sincere, and it wasn't until he lost the netflix deal and hbo streamline and a movie deal. when he knew his butt was on the line, for him to wait until that point to come forward really takes it all the way. >> that's call us the case. people don't change until they feel enough pain that causes them to finally reflect. obviously he was rather impressed with himself and he felt the need to do this for whatever reason. i'm sure psychologists are more qualified than i am to determine why men that are that

narcissistic feel the need to pleasure themselves front of women to validate themselves. it's very strange. i just think that at this poi point -- i'm glad to see that there are women that finally feel comfortable enough to be able to say, yes, this has happened and it's a water shed moment because we're taking down very powerful men where in the past women couldn't do that and think they would be protected. that's why they've been silent for so long. i'm glad to see there's finally consequences going on here. that's a step in the right direction. my reaction to his words were, it seemed very convenient. >> we were talking about terry crews, what a big deal it was for this big guy who dances with his pecs say that he was molested and file charges.

i have a question for you, anderson. why do you think men don't stand up? why do you think they don't protect each other? why do you think it was a woman that saw that boy in the bar. >> it's a male thing about did she if you're straight and a guy comes up to you. >> it was also a career issue. >> right. >> yes, but he's -- >> and actors are in a vulnerable position. a lot of them are working job to job and thv these executives. we take knees for each other. i don't understand why now that it's out, these women are their colleagues, somebody's daughter, they're somebody's mother. i'm confused why men don't help

other men and help each other and help the women. even after they've shown that first step of bravery. >> do you feel like something has fundamentally changed? >> the floodgates are open. everything is different. obviously for a lot of women social security kind of borne out of the political moment we're n. a lot of this directly for women tracks back to trump's election and a lot of women's feelings, we have a commander in chief who bragged about sexual assault. if that's the playing field we're on, there's a sense of anger a lot of women feel. i do think it's interesting that historically women have been kept out of jobs where their hormones would preventive them from making decisions.

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[ bloop, clicking ] and connect, as a family. just, uh one second voice guy. [ bloop ] huh? hey? i paused it. bam, family time. so how is everyone? find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. tonight lawyers for former national security adviser michael flynn are denying a report that he's being vefd in a bizarre plot to kidnap a muslim cleric on behalf of a foreign country. flynn and his son were to be paid millions of dollars to forcibly remove a cleric living in the united states delivering had i am to turkey to go to prison. his lawyers say it's outrageous and false. back now with the panel. if this is true, again, bizarre doesn't even begin to cover

this. this was a guy, flynn, who was about to become the national security adviser of the president of the united states, one of the most powerful positions there is. >> right. according to the report they're sitting in the 21 club in mantd having this conversation about essentially seizing someone who is a nonamerican citizen living here with a green card and taking him to jail in turkey. it's bizarre. it is so far an allegation and i think that the thing to keep in mind about this is that special counsel robert mueller is looking for ways in which he can have leverage over folks, right. and so that this allegation exists out there, this is something that apparently the fbi may be investigating, that is a point of leverage and if there is something that michael flynn knows and doesn't necessarily want to share with robert mueller, this is another way in which he can exercise that leverage over him. >> you talk about a guy who has a number of points of leverage. it seems like with michael flynn there's numerous points of leverage. >> flynn hits closer to home

more so than manafort because he actually fshtd the campaign, went through the transition, took a job in the white house. >> and spent a lot of time -- >> was with the president a lot, a lot more than manafort. this is a lot of speculation. we don't really know what's happening here, but what is clear is that the flynn operation has become central to what mueller is doing and what we don't know is the key issue, is any of this connected to donald trump. does any of this have anything to do with trump. he may not have been aware. we don't know. and so if you're at the white house that's what you're wondering about today is can they ever draw the line between flynn and trump and we don't know that. >> maybe trump wasn't involved in the turkey stuff which is all problematic in and of itself. where this becomes a trump story, we have to remember that part of the reason why, allegedly, trump fired comey was not only the russian investigation getting maybe too close to him, but he also allegedly asked comey to cut flynn a break.

so that is central to the whole obstruction of justice, why was comey fired aspect of what the special counsel is investigating. so that's where -- so the turkey and the foreign money taking and not registering properly, all those things can be used to lean on flynn to see if he's going to give up the goods about conversations potentially between him and trump and what was going on concerning comey. and also, if you remember back in march, it was flynn's lawyer who said that he had a lot to say. >> a story to tell. >> a story to tell and was potentially looking for immunity at the time. so that's where the tie in with trump comes in in the greater russian investigation. >> and with regard to the turkey story i was talking with someone who is very familiar with this and while it sounds extraordinary, paying someone $15 million to kidnap someone and take them back, if you put it in a little different context in which that turkey is a nato ally, they're asking for this person to come back to their country and it's something

that's not out of the realm of possibility for us to consider returning that person and giving flynn the benefit of the doubt he may have been just working to help extradite the person back to turkey as opposed to kidnapping and taking him back. consider that possibility. >> that's a big difference. >> absolutely. >> i think more -- more troubling is certainly the russia ties and to scott's point flynn brings it more close to home. also because his son involved in this and i think that is much more closer to trump than the turkey situation. >> to the extent that the vice president thought he lied and that it appears that he may have been out here freelancing, i mean, it just gives the impression that this is an administration that is not in charge of foreign policy, doesn't know what's going on. the secretary of state is barely authorized to do what it is that he is obligated to do and

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